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2017–2022 · USDA CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE, COUNTY PROFILES
No official count of Lincoln Township's farms exists, and none is printed here; the farm economy's measured frame is the county's. The Census of Agriculture's county profile for St. Joseph County counts 629 farms on 149,981 acres in 2017, an average farm of 238 acres, and 547 farms on 153,034 acres in 2022, an average of 280 acres — fewer farms farming more land, at a larger average size, across the five years. In 2022 crops made 80 per cent of the county's farm sales and livestock 20 per cent. The county series behind those two points — the wheat century, the corn-and-livestock order, the tractor counts at dated points — is carried whole in the South Bend build's farms file and stands here at pointer size; this section carries what is Lincoln Township's own. The township itself was detached from Liberty Township in June 1866 (Chapman's chapter; the Government file carries the civil course), a standard survey township of thirty-six sections on the county's southern edge, its northern ground draining to Pine Creek and its southern marshes to the Kankakee — the two waters between which its whole farm history runs.
Sources:
- USDA Census of Agriculture, County Profile, St. Joseph County, Indiana, 2017 and 2022 (farms, land in farms, average size, sales split).
- Chapman (1880), Lincoln Township chapter (the 1866 detachment; the marsh character).